BECOME A BFF

At the Budhia Foundation we believe our members deserve the best. For this we believe in serving a clientele that we can attend to personally. For this purpose, The Budhia Foundation’s events are ‘invite only’ and invitations are often limited to our Friends and Patrons.

For 5 Euros a month, BF Friends receive an array of benefits from this program which include:- Free admission to exhibitions, talks and screenings at the Budhia Foundation- Access to exclusive online artworks- Special invitations to events and talks at the Sandberg Instituut- 10% discount on the BF all BF publications- Premium BF tote

At 25 Euros a month the BF Patron program, receives all the benefits of the Friends program and lots more including- Invitations to special Patron events- Invitation to special patron events- A guaranteed ticket to the Season Finale Dinner- Private studio visits and gallery tours- Limited Edition Art- Free Annual Budhia Foundation Catalogue

Supported byNezone Group of CompaniesMinistry of Culture, IndiaSandberg Instituut

CONTRIBUTE

The Budhia Foundation is grateful for gifts of any size. Your contribution will help us commission new exciting artists and fund the production of works which would otherwise not exist.

You can donate to the Budhia Foundation in the following ways:- Giving a one time donation of money (also payable in installments)- Donating through estate planning or by making the Foundation a beneficiary.

ABOUT

The Budhia Foundation is project space that creates opportunities for emerging artists from around Europe. We provide young artists and recent graduates with a platform that is both engaging and challenging.

Our program is divided into two seasons- The Spring/Summer Collection and The Autumn/Winter Collection.

Artists are commissioned for a period of one month to make works specially for the Foundation's Amsterdam Project Space that explore the thematics of a chosen text.All commissions remain in the space for the entire duration of the Season.

Over the course of the season, an act of 'collection' occurs.We 'build' a collection that is thematically coherent but varied in style and methodology and this helps provide a more rounded understanding of the text we chose to begin with and also the works of each commissioned artist. This collection is unveiled to our audience at a Season Finale.

At the Budhia Foundation we believe we have a duty to the artworks we display and to the audience that views it. This duty is that of creating an environment of exploration and understanding.With this in mind, we curate events such as talks and screenings relevant to the works of the artist-in-commission. The artist is encouraged to be active participants in this decision making process.

Our longstanding partnership with Sandberg Instituut ensures commissioned artists access to the workshops at the Rietveld Academie, which aids in the process of realising their projects for the Budhia Foundation.

founding fathersInitiated in 2015 by Pradip Kumar Budhia, Vice-President of Nezone Group of Companies, Budhia Foundation is a unique example of corporate patronage in the arts.(+)Founded in 1981, the Nezone Group is a multi-plant manufacturer, specialising in the production of electric-welded steel tubes of the highest quality. It stands for everything that characterises commitment: openness, internationality and the pioneering spirit and seeks to bring these values to the platform of artistic production without pontification. (-)

director/collectorShristie Budhia1990 (IN) — lives and works in Amsterdam (NL)(-)(+)

collectorCyril de Menouillard1991 (FR) — lives and works between Amsterdam (NL) and Annecy (FR)(-)(+)

☂BF001—

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«Consider the short, 16mm film of Kennedy’s death. Shot by a spectator in the crowd, it is a long take, the most typical long take imaginable... In this, the only possible film of Kennedy’s death, all other points of view are missing: that of Kennedy and Jacqueline, that of assassin himself and his accomplices, that of those with a better vantage point, and that of the police escorts, etc. Suppose we have footage shots from all those points of view, what would we have?»(Pier Paolo Pasolini,

This season: Fiction-The lens to perceive contours of what we experience as reality; Evidence or the lack thereof; the stories that never get told or those that get told so often no one knows where they came from to begin with. The spaces between point A and point B, the etcetera etcetera and the something something.

☂BF001— (June 2016 to October 2016) features new works by Darcey Bennett, Agathe Daigremont, Floris Schönfeld and Andrew de Freitas.

☂BF001—Commissions

As we grow older, we dream.However, dreams may be dispelled.There are proper rites for everything.If only you wanted to, you would tell me what things would help me.Even if a word is nothing more,what then is a breath?[...] (+)And yet, between day and nightwhen I lie with my eyes opena something crawls over me.It is not a word.It is not a pain.It does not press on me.It does not choke me.It is nothing, not even a nightmareand yet it is so dreadfulthat my soul longs to be hangedand every limb in my body criesout for deathand yet I continue to live,and I am not even ill.You see me: do I look like a sick person?Can one then perish while still alive, like a rotting carcass?Can one crumble away when not at all ill?Crumble away, while conscious,like a piece of clothing devoured by moths?

And then I sleep,and dream,dream that the marrow is melting in my bonesand what is grinning under the curtain is not yet the pale morning light.No, it is not the torch at the door,flickering horribly,like a living thing spying on my sleep.There must be an end to these dreams, whoever sends them.Every demon leaves us aloneas soon as the right blood has flowed.And if I have to open the veins of every creature that crawls and flies…And, like the people of Ultima Thule,in their blood red mists get up and go to bed in the steam of blood…I will dream no more when the appointed victim falls under the axe,only then, I will dream no more

The masts of ships always appear before the roundness of their hulls on the horizon of the seas. This intuition of the Ancient Greeks introduced the sphere in the conception of their world, sweeping on the same shot the idea of a unique center on its surface.[...] (+)Each plain, each dune, each ocean wave, hides under its curve an hypothetical navel, sometimes chanced upon by the steps of an exploring traveller. A clod, hastily assembled by some gestures of the palms would be enough to mark these places encountered on the way, these potential points of origin, these universal umbilics. How many secrets omphaloi would be created this way in the solitude of a long journey by some hands hoping to recenter their world.

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Who is Agathe Daigremont?1990 (FR),lives and works in Lyon (FR),2015 - Master in Fine Arts, ESAAA (FR)

A talk by commissioned artist Floris Schönfeld on the history of the Budhia Foundation, as part of ☂BF001.3—----- Budhia Foundation Chat Sessions : Chat sessions with commissioned artists, the collecting team & special guests.